OR-01: President Obama Dragging Down Democrats Across the Country

Democrat Susan Bonamici is such an embarrassment to her party, that national Democrats have been forced to dump at least $1.5 million into her efforts to win a special election in Oregon’s First District – a district Obama won with 62 percent of the vote in 2008. The district covers the northwest corner of the state, including southwest Portland.

Why is Bonamici such a disaster?

For starters, she is closely associated with disgraced ex-Congressman David Wu, who resigned last year in the wake of allegations that he made sexual advances on a teenage girl – prompting this special election. It wasn’t Wu’s first scandal. In 2004, The Oregonian reported that Wu was disciplined in college for sexually assaulting an ex-girlfriend. A string of other accusations from former staff finally let to Wu’s demise.

Bonamici’s husband was Wu’s personal attorney, and in addition to donating to his campaign, she herself called Wu “a friend.”

Beyond that, Bonamici brings a great deal of baggage to the race from her time in the state Legislature, having voted with her party a whopping 98 percent of time. This coupled with frequent gaffs – (she told a local television station that she couldn’t ever recall voting against a tax increase) – has left her on the defense in a year when voters are largely turning against the big-government, big-spending agenda that is Obama’s legacy.

Bonamici has embraced these policies, along with Obama’s takeover of healthcare.

In fact, Bonamici doesn’t think Obamacare care went far enough, saying she actually supported a full “public option” and calling the 2,000-plus page bill “a first step.” That bill, by Nancy Pelosi’s own admission, took half a trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Also telling from a national perspective is that Bonamici is finding herself anchored down by Obama, in a district that went heavily for the president in 2008, a foreshadowing of big problems for the Democrats in November.

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